As any military strategist knows, it's impossible to win a defensive warfare. Defensive war is doomed to defeat. To win a war, you have to launch an attack. You have to go on the offensive. You have to attack the enemy. You have to set him back on his heels. You have to take the initiative. You have to be positive. You have to attack and invade and overpower. You can't just sit there and try to ward him off while he attacks and invades, or he'll finally overpower you.

Some people just don't seem to understand the miracle of conversion and the idealistic desire to devote one's entire life to God's service. "For the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit, for they are foolishness unto him!" (1Cor.2:14)--Many have been thought to have suddenly gone mad, like the Apostle Paul, or been "driven crazy by religion", because there was such a sudden change in their lives. (See Acts 26:24; Mk.3:21; Jn.10:20.)

In fact, nearly all the prophets and men of God throughout the Bible and past ages were thought to have been nuts by the rest of the World: Dreamers, visionaries, hearing voices, having hallucinations, and pretty well flipped-out over religion. It all depends on who is calling who mad! If people think we're a little eccentric, or off-center, it's not because we're off the center--it's because they're wobbling around themselves, away off the one and only true Center, Jesus Christ! Man without God is off center, insane.--They're the ones who are not in their right minds, because they can't possibly know what's right without Jesus!

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Deep Truths is a collection of the basic teachings of David Brandt Berg who was my pastor for 20 years and who led me on a path of service for Jesus Christ and showed me how to love God and others. I have been a missionary for Christ in Japan from 1974 to the present with the exception of 4 years in other countries, specifically Russia, China, Estonia and Poland. My hope is this website will inspire and feed God's sheep.

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Deep Truths was first created on Jan. 5, 2004 in Niigata Japan. It is not an official web site of The Family International. By not "official", I mean it is not directly sponsored by the Family International World Services. Most of the articles on Deep Truths are publications from the Family International, but some of the opinions stated in the introduction to the articles are those of the webmaster, James Arendt. From January 2017 I have begun to post some different views and interpretations of Scripture that are not based on David Berg or the Family International's teachings.